I’m appalled at the apparent rise of Huckabee. If there is one type of person this country does not need as President, it is someone who professes a belief that God created the earth in seven days and that evolution is a false doctrine (as reported in the Washington Post. To me, such beliefs […]
I’m not a heavy-duty Christmas shopper–never have been. But, this year I’m worried, as I do not see the crowds of shoppers I’ve seen in the past. I don’t shop in a lot of places, but Stanford Shopping Mall and Target in Redwood City should yield some clues. The stores are not jammed. Have the […]
Love this sentence: “The team performed one of the largest cosmological supercomputer simulations ever, cramming 2.5 percent of the visible universe inside a computer to model a region more than 1.5 billion light-years across.”
Whole article on the simulation is interesting
If there is a story that makes me angry and sick about the war and the treatment of military personnel, it is this one about 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside
Briefly, an outstanding army reservist with rave reviews for her performance, went to Iraq. There she was subjected to some very bad treatment by a male officer. […]